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‘Waltz of the Wizard’ Preview

What do you get when you combine mandrake root, a ruby, and a suspicious red potion? How about eye of newt, a glowing green gemstone, and a foul yellow liquid? To be honest, I can't really remember, but whatever...

VR on Steam Bounces Back to Nearly 2.8 Million Monthly-connected Headsets

Last month we pointed out a sharp drop in the number of users with VR headsets on Steam according to the latest data from Valve. There wasn't a clear cut explanation as to why. This months data shows the...

Pico Reportedly Cancels Quest Competitor to Instead Take on Apple Vision Pro

According to a report from The Information, ByteDance subsidiary Pico Interactive is pulling the release of its next consumer-focused standalone headset in effort to no longer compete directly with Meta Quest, instead positioning its next device to compete with...

More Optimization Tips from Oculus for Unity-based Gear VR Projects

Chris Pruett, Oculus’ head of developer relations and co-founder of Robot Invader, elucidates more about the technical knacks for optimizing Unity-based works intended for the Samsung Gear VR mobile platform. See Also: Oculus Shares Optimization Tips for Unity-based Gear VR Projects In...

New Vision Pro Hands-on Reports Drop Ahead of Friday Pre-order

We've had a chance to go hands-on with Apple Vision Pro when the company unveiled it at WWDC last summer. Now it seems Apple has let a few outlets in for another go, as new previews have dropped ahead...

Valve Confirms ‘Aperture Science’ VR Demo is Not HTC Vive Exclusive

In a tweet by Valve writer Chet Faliszek, he has confirmed that the brilliant Aperture Science demo used in Valve's press and public displays of SteamVR hardware at various shows, will not be exclusive to the HTC Vive and will...

VR Quiz Game ‘Go Guess’ Uses Google 360 Captures to Make You Guess Where You Are

Go Guess (2018) is a new interactive VR quiz game from developers Oblix that tosses you into Google 360 captures and makes you to guess where you are. The twist? You're playing against other people, and you can hobnob...

Chandana Ekanayake on Unlearning Game Design for VR

Chandana Ekanayake is a game director & art director at Uber Entertainment where he's working on a VR adventure game for the PlayStation VR titled Wayward Sky. I caught up with Chandana at the Seattle VR Expo where he...

Update to ‘PSVR 2 App’ for SteamVR Makes it Easier to Diagnose Controller Tracking Issues

Sony has released an update to the PlayStation VR2 App which allows the headset to be used with SteamVR content. The update makes it easier to diagnose controller tracking issues which have been proven problematic. The latest update to PlayStation VR2...

Project Sansar ‘Creator Preview’ Sign Ups are Now Open, Launches in Summer

Project Sansar from Second Life creator Linden Lab is a new virtual world, built for virtual reality which promises world building tools capable of generating beautiful, shareable worlds online. Now, Linden Lab has announced it's opened the sign up process...

The 10 Best SteamVR Games to Play in 2020

Thanks to Steam's hardware agnostic approach, it's become the defacto repository of all things PC VR (excluding Oculus exclusives, of course). Every major PC VR headset is supported through the SteamVR platform, including Oculus Rift S, HTC Vive, Valve Index,...
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Survival-Horror Game ‘SYREN’ Coming to PSVR November 6th, New Trailer Here

HammerheadVR, the studio behind SYREN (2017), today announced the single-player VR survival-horror game is coming to PSVR soon. First released on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift in February 2017, SYREN is now slated to release on PSVR November 6th. If you haven't heard of...

‘Horizon Worlds’ is Getting AI-powered NPCs Soon That Talk, Guide and React in Real Time

Meta laid out the next step of its AI integration strategy for social VR platform Horizon Worlds, noting that "very soon" creators will be able to add AI-powered NPCs to their worlds. Earlier this year Meta introduced non-embodied NPCs, essentially...

Oculus Releases PC SDK 0.8 with “Improved Support for Windows 10”

As the company drives toward releasing SDK 1.0 alongside the consumer Oculus Rift they've now released SDK 0.8 with "Improved Support for Windows 10." Until SDK 0.7, the Oculus Rift didn't officially support Windows 10. With SDK 0.8, the company...

AR Glasses Startup Nreal Secures $40M in Series B Financing

Nreal, the China-based company behind the Nreal Light AR glasses, today announced its secured another $40 million in funding. As reported by TechCrunch, the latest financing round was led by Chinese video sharing platform Kuaishou, with participation by iQiyi, GP Capital,...
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